EBS Mensa goes Vegan

The governor of California Jerry Brown is saying that people should change to veggie-burgers instead of normal meat burgers in order to save resources and prevent the next drought. According to the Pacific Institute, the meat and dairy industry is making up 47% of California’s water footprint, which is enormous. While a beef burger uses 621 gallons of water for production (especially of meat) one similar veggie burger only uses 42 gallons of water in production, which is almost 15 times less water resource usage than for a beef burger.

The National Geographic statistic is that a vegan diet saves up to 600 gallons of water per day. According to UNESCO even a vegetarian diet requires only half of water in production. In front of the struggles with environmental change and damage, this water and energy saving could help to save life on earth. The average daily water footprint of a vegan diet are just 300 gallons of water, while a vegetarian diet with dairy products consumes 1200 gallons of water daily. The most water wasting diet is of course the carnivore diet which has a average footprint of 4000 gallons of water per day. In total, it takes less water to produce one food for a vegan than tp produce just a month of food for a meat eater.

Therefore, the Stockholm’s international water institution emphasized that we all should change to a 95% plant-based-diet by the year 2050. I think these numbers speak for themselves. We need to address the prejudices and start to educate more people about environmentally friendly life style.

EBS Mensa Goes Green

Source:
- Truth or Drought
- Book: Diet for a New America by John Robbins